Eliot Spitzer’s Best Slate Columns

The former New York governor is out of journalism, and heading back to electoral politics.

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Sunday that he’s returning to electoral politics by jumping into the race for New York City comptroller. A few months after his March 2008 resignation following a prostitution scandal, Spitzer began writing The Best Policy, a column for Slate. What started as a biweekly column eventually became a daily blog, which Spitzer kept up till early 2013.

David Plotz is the CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of the Slate Political Gabfest.

Spitzer the Slate writer was very much like Spitzer the politician: aggressive, impatient, infuriated at the ongoing corruption of Wall Street, and hungering for big ideas and plans. His pieces show him to be angry but not cynical: They vibrate with the conviction that the right policies can improve the lives of all Americans—so why do those morons keep pursuing the wrong ones?

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